397 Travel Dramas Always Teach Us Something
Things inevitably go wrong when we travel - some big, some small, occasionally some trip-ending, but most travel dramas seem to end up being...
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The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle is a show for travel lovers. Each episode is packed with travel stories from fellow travel addicts on topics like using foreign languages, me...
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20 of 423 episodes396 Spending A Year Abroad
If you have the opportunity to spend an extended time travelling - like an entire year - I say, grab it! In this episode I chat with three p...
395 Cultural Deep Dives
Learning more about a place when we travel there is something that always gives me a thrill, and in this episode we take a cultural deep div...
394 Unusual Accommodation
Where do you sleep when a trip takes you away from a standard hotel room? This episode features some of the more unusual kinds of places we...
393 Taiwan: Chats with Locals
Taiwan is starting to gain more attention as a fascinating place to visit: it's a great blend of delicious food, interesting history and cul...
392 What You'd Tell Your Younger Travelling Self
If you could go back in time and tap on the shoulder of your younger self as you backpack around the world, what would you say? I've been po...
Book Club 25: The Venice Hotel by Tess Woods
This special episode is the audio of the live-streamed May 2026 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, chatting about "The Venice H...
391 Enviable Travel Jobs
It's easy to be a little envious of anyone who gets to travel to interesting places as part of their work, but when the work itself is also...
390 How to be a Good Volunteer Abroad
The world of volunteer tourism is a tricky one. Getting the balance right between enabling people to volunteer in another country, and meeti...
389 How Travel Transforms Our Thinking
The more I travel (and the older I get!), the more I realise how little I know, and how wrong I've been about so many things! In this episod...
388 Iceland: Chats with Locals
Iceland is a place many travellers dream of visiting; if, like me, you've been lucky enough to see Iceland, you probably desperately want to...
387 Ten Years of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
A decade ago to the day - 25th March 2016 - I launched the first episodes of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast. Somehow, I have just kept interv...
386 It Could’ve Been Much Worse: Surviving Travel Dramas
Some travellers have a much keener sense of adventure and embracing physical risk on their travels, and others just stumble into a travel dr...
385 Women in History and Travel - International Women’s Day 2026
It's International Women's Day again and I've got a different focus this year: some of the ways history and travel is not the same for women...
Book Club 24: Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent
This special episode is the audio of the live-streamed February 2026 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, chatting with author Ha...
384 Travel With All Your Senses
We often focus on the visual when we travel ... after all, travellers go sightseeing, not "sound-hearing" or "taste-tasting"! But when we lo...
383 Small Connections, Big Memories
One of the most memorable parts of travel is the people that we meet - not just the friends we make or the people we stay with but also the...
382 Travel Meet Cutes
We need some light relief in these tricky times and I found these stories just perfect! Finding love while you're travelling sounds like it...
381 Elephants, Tigers and Responsible Animal Tourism
Various statistics suggest that more than half of travellers want to see animals when they travel: that's why we keep returning to the topic...
380 Pandemic Travel and Big Life Changes
It's (somehow!) six years ago that we started to learn about this new virus and then find ourselves caught up in a global pandemic. While th...